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About The Progressive Media Project

We founded the Progressive Media Project in 1993 to diversify and democratize our nation’s op-ed pages. We train activists and staff from nonprofit social justice organizations to write op-eds, and we edit and distribute op-eds to newspapers around the country, with an emphasis on lifting up voices that are underrepresented in the mainstream media.

The nursing home industry, with Trump’s support, are threatening a critical piece of private enforcement that protects vulnerable people who live in institutions, and improves the quality of care they receive.more

The senator may have trouble convincing skeptics about his new Medicare for All plan, because his language falls right into well-established trenches in common U.S. ideological battles. Here's another idea.more

After years of whipping up hysteria about mass illegal voting that simply doesn’t exist, far-right activists now have the official support of Trump to advance voter suppression. But there's something Americans can do about it.more

I'm an ordinary citizen, a former public school teacher and librarian, not a constitutional or political expert. I don’t know where we, as a country, go from here. But I do know we deserve a leader who speaks out against hate without equivocation.more

A longtime opponent of legal marijuana, Attorney General Sessions may be planning a federal crackdown on the cannabis industry. That’s bad news for medical marijuana users like me, and also for the country.more

We shouldn't be surprised that the Justice Department may be investigating alleged discrimination against white university students. Donald Trump is once again stoking racial divides so that he can play hero for 'victimized whites'.more